Hiroaki Sakurai (b. 1958)

Alias:
Sakurai Hiroaki
さくらい ひろあき
桜井 弘明

Birthplace:
Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan

Born:
December 15, 1958

Hiroaki Sakurai (桜井 弘明) is a Japanese anime director.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Creator:
2000  Daa! Daa! Daa! UFO Baby

Director:
1995  Azuki-chan
1995  Nurse Angel Ririka SOS
1996  Kodocha
1997  Revolutionary Girl Utena
1999  Di Gi Charat
2000  Daa! Daa! Daa! UFO Baby
2001  PaRappa the Rapper
2003  Cromartie High School
2003  Di Gi Charat Nyo!
2003  Nanaka 6/17
2004  Sweet Valerian
2005  Magical Girl Tsukune-chan
2007  Petit Eva: Evangelion@School
2009  GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class
2010  Maid Sama!
2010  ちーすい丸
2020  Mewkledreamy

Screenplay:
1995  Azuki-chan
1995  Nurse Angel Ririka SOS
1996  Kodocha
1997  Revolutionary Girl Utena
1999  Di Gi Charat
2000  Daa! Daa! Daa! UFO Baby
2001  PaRappa the Rapper
2003  Cromartie High School
2003  Di Gi Charat Nyo!
2003  Nanaka 6/17
2004  Sweet Valerian
2005  Magical Girl Tsukune-chan
2007  Petit Eva: Evangelion@School
2009  GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class
2010  Maid Sama!
2010  ちーすい丸
2020  Mewkledreamy

Script Editor:
1995  Azuki-chan
1995  Nurse Angel Ririka SOS
1996  Kodocha
1997  Revolutionary Girl Utena
1999  Di Gi Charat
2000  Daa! Daa! Daa! UFO Baby
2001  PaRappa the Rapper
2003  Cromartie High School
2003  Di Gi Charat Nyo!
2003  Nanaka 6/17
2004  Sweet Valerian
2005  Magical Girl Tsukune-chan
2007  Petit Eva: Evangelion@School
2009  GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class
2010  Maid Sama!
2010  ちーすい丸
2020  Mewkledreamy

Series Director:
1995  Azuki-chan
1995  Nurse Angel Ririka SOS
1996  Kodocha
1997  Revolutionary Girl Utena
1999  Di Gi Charat
2000  Daa! Daa! Daa! UFO Baby
2001  PaRappa the Rapper
2003  Cromartie High School
2003  Di Gi Charat Nyo!
2003  Nanaka 6/17
2004  Sweet Valerian
2005  Magical Girl Tsukune-chan
2006  Di Gi Charat: Winter Garden
2007  Petit Eva: Evangelion@School
2009  GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class
2010  Maid Sama!
2010  ちーすい丸
2011  The Everyday Tales of a Cat God
2016  The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.
2019  The Demon Girl Next Door
2019  The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Reawakened
2020  Mewkledreamy
2022  Reiwa no Di Gi Charat
????  The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess

Storyboard:
1995  Azuki-chan
1995  Nurse Angel Ririka SOS
1996  Kodocha
1997  Revolutionary Girl Utena
1999  Di Gi Charat
2000  Daa! Daa! Daa! UFO Baby
2001  PaRappa the Rapper
2003  Cromartie High School
2003  Di Gi Charat Nyo!
2003  Nanaka 6/17
2004  Sweet Valerian
2005  Magical Girl Tsukune-chan
2005  Mushi-Shi
2006  Di Gi Charat: Winter Garden
2007  Petit Eva: Evangelion@School
2009  GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class
2010  Maid Sama!
2010  ちーすい丸
2011  The Everyday Tales of a Cat God
2016  The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.
2019  The Demon Girl Next Door
2019  The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Reawakened
2020  Mewkledreamy
2022  Reiwa no Di Gi Charat
????  The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess

Storyboard Artist:
1995  Azuki-chan
1995  Nurse Angel Ririka SOS
1996  Kodocha
1997  Revolutionary Girl Utena
1999  Di Gi Charat
2000  Daa! Daa! Daa! UFO Baby
2001  PaRappa the Rapper
2003  Cromartie High School
2003  Di Gi Charat Nyo!
2003  Nanaka 6/17
2004  Sweet Valerian
2005  Magical Girl Tsukune-chan
2005  Mushi-Shi
2006  Di Gi Charat: Winter Garden
2007  Petit Eva: Evangelion@School
2009  GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class
2010  Maid Sama!
2010  ちーすい丸
2011  The Everyday Tales of a Cat God
2016  The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.
2017  Little Witch Academia
2018  Teasing Master Takagi-san
2019  The Demon Girl Next Door
2019  The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Reawakened
2020  Mewkledreamy
2022  Reiwa no Di Gi Charat
2023  The Dangers in My Heart
2025  Honey Lemon Soda
????  The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess

Writer:
1995  Azuki-chan
1995  Nurse Angel Ririka SOS
1996  Kodocha
1997  Revolutionary Girl Utena
1999  Di Gi Charat
2000  Daa! Daa! Daa! UFO Baby
2001  PaRappa the Rapper
2003  Cromartie High School
2003  Di Gi Charat Nyo!
2003  Nanaka 6/17
2004  Sweet Valerian
2005  Magical Girl Tsukune-chan
2005  Mushi-Shi
2006  Di Gi Charat: Winter Garden
2007  Petit Eva: Evangelion@School
2009  GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class
2010  Maid Sama!
2010  ちーすい丸
2011  The Everyday Tales of a Cat God
2016  The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.
2017  Little Witch Academia
2018  Teasing Master Takagi-san
2019  The Demon Girl Next Door
2019  The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Reawakened
2020  Mewkledreamy
2022  Reiwa no Di Gi Charat
2023  The Dangers in My Heart
2025  Honey Lemon Soda
????  The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.